Tapering is going to happen, whether you like it or not. If you are a long-term investor, Tapering will temporary impact your portfolio value. It is also an opportunity to increase your investment when the stock market drops.
Be grateful, be happy. Enjoy the friendship in this community. Pick good stocks. Earn money, celebrate together. Don't earn money, diamond hands together. LOL.
Think can monitor retail stocks like Walmart and Target closely. Ordinary people still need to buy groceries, toilet rolls (LOL), etc regardless of the direction of the inflation rate.
The market will go up and go down. If it doesn't move, it is dead. Be excited if there is a correction along the way. It is an opportunity to invest in good stocks or ETFs. Save up buy the dip. If not, just do nothing.
If it goes up the report is likely to be along the line of 'investors betting on positive earnings... ...'. If it goes down, will the report be along the line of 'investors have already priced in the earnings... ...'? Lol